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Show t. : ' -. " . ' ' - n I.''iv tm' 'v ere ye t r- -.e (!'' 13V ' 1 ' ( a o ' - i e r 1 aa f f i , 1 i A;.. t...y true t--e c;ti..u ( ) ' . : i TJ-.e - s'urcl days of dreaJ and J :1 ' I i i i VT-' . .1 our Jys were on. i ( i I.' f l."ti eio.ie wivh song and ( : ii i : ' ) (i Axi t.jnous with sun. , f) ( ) , f ) ( i T- lonc!y wv wherein we went, ( j ( a. Thln-aept, wlna-swayed () i cr-ht. ) TTere ricd- with our heart's con- ( i ' I . t ut, ( ) ' TTim star and moonthlse lifht. ( ..... - ) i Axd s'noe you wentoh. false and ; ) l I brt 1 ( I Too true this eltrn t mark; ( i ) T? crowded days are loneliest, . ( ) ( ) 0 moonlit r'vhU mobt oark. ( ) ( i JuilN AVlJTVSoOO In the.iiaxch ) (-) traart Set () Q O O "O i3 O 0 0 and all the better for its manner of racy narrations. cemmrr aitd czzzzf , '( 01 EC0r3 AZTD A.XTTH0113. O. Henry has written a novel of South America; "Cabbages 'and Kings" its title. "Nostromo" is the unenllghtenlng -.title Joseph Conrad has chosen for his new South American romance. . John Fox's novel. "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come,'1 has sold UD.OCti copies. Harry Leon Wilson, author of "The Spenders," has completed another novel which the Lothrop company will publish this spring. e . ' "The Rainbow Chasers," by John H. Whitson. which Lit tie. Brown St Co, pub-V"h pub-V"h this srng. Is a story of Western Kansas in 14 and the land .boomers. ' ' . . e e- e . Henry C Rowland, who wrote that stirring stir-ring book of adventure stories, "6ea Scamps." has his first novel ready for publication, It Is entitled. "To Windward." Wind-ward." . " . e ' - . . .- . A welcome bit of literary news Is that Mary Tappan. Wright, author of that good novel. "Aliens," has a new book Just coming com-ing from the press of the Scrlbners; Its tide is "The Test." "A Woman's -Walks" Is the title under which Lady Colin Campbell Is publishing a collection of the papers she wrote for the -London World. "Studies In Color Abroad and at Home", la the sub-title. e Eden Phillpotts waited only to see nls new novel,' . "The American Prisoner," through the press, and then started for the fuviera, on his way to Corsica, whero be will spend the remainder of the winter. "The American Prisoner" is already. In Its Second edition. One "report is that Hall Caine has been overworking, and is advised by bis physicians phy-sicians to abstain from bookmaklng for a time. Another announcement is that his next novel, "The Prodigal Son," is almost al-most ready for publication.- It Is a story of modern times, with the scenes divided between Iceland and England. - :: :i - n r;-i. . , .- . r h:i, -written, in "The .' Z : : ," a rnv. 1 'v : : :h I j c ' I t r.l : lc ...e kr.ows that it la c:i, tut - j T-y r.ot W.l always when l.'r v.T-1-i.' 5 In odiity bf-'.ns snJ. i'.n It c ller realism is cf the I' t t'jla t t 13 accr;tel es cf tocy, fct It Is . ii (i air of 1' '-.: vJ . n I " S Ce i t cf ar.::thes.s la a rorr.ar".c novel. re are r.atural sceiit-s ar J incivii-t incivii-t j of charm and others sad with the r r.otony of ares. The fret charters ' t -.e r-trratrittic. a re!"or.s-e wroU c - :.:.-se-i with these worca :"Col. i.ion Is not the hero of this story; r d.e-ard people like hlra and l-.a Crawford are r rurally allowed to pursue pur-sue their w ay unexamined by the novelist, nov-elist, thou-h they may be none- the less . ' Interesting for all that. He an his re-lections re-lections may not be placed! In the background." back-ground." They do not stay there. In the back-.' back-.' 'ground they are In relief sUU. The Colonel Is delicate. Mrs. Crawford Is desperately ordinary. - A writer has much merit in describing with the patience pa-tience which la neceseary the details of a life and the traits of a character like : lira. Crawford's- -After -the description la achieved one -has to My that It is - liftlike, one has not to tElnk that it is valuable. The moralist say that i Is useful. - , . Mrs. Crawford's daughter marries to cult her, and not because she has fallen in love. There is a lesson for mothers who are narrowly domestic! The heroine hero-ine loves nature, apparently, hut she does not paint It, She paints through eur?estlons of It -visions of it similar to Brake's, and! the pleasure of doing this . - gives to the book its title, for "with thought with the idea is Immortal hilarity, hi-larity, the Rose of Joy; round it all the muses sing." The adventures of the story are. In their conformity with those of everyday life, more exciting perhaps than the battles and Jails of the romances. . These have ceased to happen, and the adventures that are told in "The Rose ' , of Joy" are in every one's surroundings. ' -' On may Avoid breaking lances on the highway .with - Briaerus and other gtanta, but one may not avoid marrying & man who thought that his wife was dead. If she return to claim her huBr band it is welt to love art of painting. Mary Flndlater writes with a great deal of talent her novel, not to say that only, but many other precious and valuable things which an artist feels and which others do not know.. ("The Rose of Joy. By Mary Find-later, Find-later, New York: McClure, Phillips tt . ' Co.).- - . 1 THE LITERARY HOMXSTT.ADER. ' ' Bewail Ford in the Reader. .Probably it will be surprising news to those who contemplate the perpetration of a first novel to learn that vast tracts of the public domain of letters still He unclaimed and untilled. At first glance one might Imagine that nothing had , been left unexploited. , To the inexperi- . enced eye the whole wide hori2on brls- , " ties with signs of warning. ' ' Are you minded to cast your plot on - -the prairies with an untutored cowboy in the title role? At once you face this , legend: . j- t . t 'vrTEB.'i BAITCH KEEP OTt! : t Lin HacXeaa, Supt j : . .......... .................. Do you tramp "beck to your native city, stumble across some unique characters char-acters on the shabby outskirts of the town? Tou are confronted by this 'iTSXXE'S 0NX.T birECABBAGZ : ff PATCH (COPYRIGHTED) : : -. . STAY OUT! - 't ' ' t Th Century Company, j t Ha! You have an idea. As a boy you had some youthful experiences that seem rather good from this distance. Eagerly you peer into the past. Why, . . what's that? Another warning notice? l' BOYVTLLE TRESPASSING : . ,x FORBIDDEir ! ! ! j : i I "William Allen White. : ' t ............. t... ....... ...4... Rather discouraging, eh? But cheei up. "If you travel far enough you will come to the regions of the Unwritten, i If you are really determined to leave AJte crowded commons, if you are pent - - on finding your sermons la the stones of an untrod field, apply to'the librarian of Congress for, a copy of the Literary Homestead act and the, accompanying charts showing the reserved and the unreserved tracts. You -will find the ' ' occupied portions indicated by a vanilla yellow tint the unsettled districts colored col-ored a turnip top green. You will observe that the Forest has all been taken up. But no writer has yet filed claim to the Picnic Grove. The epic of Wheat has been written, but the pastoral of the Baking Bean is yet to come. Only the mere edges of the in- . v dustrial field have been appropriated. We have had storles"about railroading, ' cod fishing, i lumbering,. etc., but the ro-; ro-; mance.of the tin roofer, the comic hls-. hls-. tory of the Journeyman tailor and the . tragedy of the boss baker await your ten. ' - .' i r And now, while "Said the Fisherman" Is enjoying the chorus of welcome which it is meeting In both America end England, Eng-land, Its author, Marmaduke Plokthail, has finished another story, which Is to be published, during the spring. Mr. Pickthail has bandoned Tur key-in-Asia, and the book Is one of English country, life; its title, "Enid." Mrs. Hugh Fraser's "Letters From Japan" Ja-pan" is to be published by the Macmillan company early In March, In a new edition In one volume containing all the original Illustrations. The expensive two-volume edition ef this "Record of Modern Life In the Island Empire" was hailed as charming live years ago, and has had a large sale. e The very first day Elizabeth lost the coachman. On the way from MlHsow to Lauterbach Elisabeth and Gertrude stepped out of the carriage, lest the horses 'should bolt at a passing motor. Meantime August drove on, not hearing their shouts for him to stop. It was night before he, well-trained driver that he was, dared to look around to Inquire the gracious gra-cious one's orders. Meanwhile Elisabeth and Gertrude had various adventures In trying to overtake him. The Other "Adventures "Ad-ventures of Elisabeth in Rugen" are no leas diverting. There you are; whole.quarter sections . of virgin ground to choose from. And the conditions of the homestead act are absurdly simple. To pre-empt a claim the author is only required to print a t . dozen or so short stories in the leading , . raagaslnes or bring out a fifth edition ' '- novel, said stories or novel to be de voted to the development of the selected field. That's all there is to It ? Then why pay rent? Why not be-. be-. . come a homesteader? i : am AiiAznrcr plot; ! .... i , , .- . - i i i Headon Hill's' new novel. The Duke Decides" (A. . Wessels company) develops devel-ops at length an amazing plot to get , ' possession, of a bundle of bonds mll-v mll-v lions of pounds sterling which are in transit to London from New, Tork In a criminal conspiracy of wonderful adroitness and complexity are enlisted some of the shrewdest crooks in the world, and the new Duke of Beau-manolr, Beau-manolr, who has become entangled In the plotting, leads a life of perilous ad-, ad-, f venture until the final surprising de- r.ouement. -. - In the underplot the love affairs of ."the Duke and his trusted1 factotum are employed skilfully to enhance the interest inter-est and mystery of the rarrative. There is a faithful Hindoo servant, who performs per-forms many adventurous exploits, and s. a mysterious arch criminal a hopeless inva'.! 1 whoe iJntity is deftly conceal. con-ceal. i ur.tll the ecd. A good story, this, i i ' |